Cloudy Thinking

Kimberly Brooks writes, in her Huffington Post article on artist porn: “Auto Porn: Jaguar XKE — There are great newer cars to be sure, but there’s nothing like a XKE Jaguar 12 cylinder in British Racing Green. My dad had one growing up and it almost never worked but, who cared? Sliding into it and taking it for a spin with the top down when I turned 16 (shhhhhh, don’t tell him) felt like wearing God’s velvet pants.”

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Andy Greenberg writes What Your Cell Phone Knows About You. Interesting but also disturbing.

I’m experimenting with Retaggr, a new “business card on the interweb” service. So far I’ve added it to my Gmail signature as a URL. Ask me in a few weeks. [click to see Retaggr for Ron K. Jeffries]

Dustin Wax writes A Beginner’s Guide to E-Books. Good stuff. Did you notice Amazon has reduced the price of its Kindle e-book reader to $359.00?

Alan Yoshioka’s Mobile Musing is packed with good ideas. It’s seldom I find a new (to me) blog with the number of interesting posts Alan presents.

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What a cool idea. Some amusement parks are creating SmartPhone- and PDA-Free zones. Kids are FED UP with tehir parents always being on the damned Blackberry or iPhone, instead of paying attention to the child. [via DigitalInspiration]

The idea behind LocalHarvest is simple. Food and gasoline prices are increasing dramatically. Why not buy food that’s locally grown? You help the small farmers, and eat wholesome (often organic) produce. Yes!

Kevin Kelly describes how How Iqbal Quadir Enables Mobile Phone Revolution in Bangladesh. This is inspiring, world-changing stuff. Thou shalt read it! That’s an order.

The Sydney Morning Herald reports: “The number of mobile phone users worldwide soared to over 3.3 billion by the end of 2007, equivalent to a penetration rate of 49 per cent, the International Telecommunications Union said in a report this week.” Mind boggling. [via Textually]

Nathan Smith has created the 960 Grid System, a design tool for web pages. Free and open source. Sensitive to Linux font needs. Cool beans.

The nice people at Github told me about Git Magic, an excellent resource from Stanford. It’s what you need when you start using the Git code managment a.k.a. version control system.

Joseph Reeves of Oxford Archaeology writes about early experiences using the Freerunner mobile phone running a pre-realease version of the OpenM0oko system.

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